The SECRET to Mastering Mental Toughness Is THIS

according to my parents family or the community i grew up in i'm a failure you know insecurities i'm not good at this i suck most people think that life's about avoiding the pain i'm here to tell you right now it is about really experiencing the pain when we want something our brain only shows us the good side of it it doesn't show the sacrifice required for it it's not a quick fix it's not going to be a bullet it actually takes work most people think that life is about avoiding the pain i'm here to tell you right now in a very controlled fashion it is about really experiencing the pain learning from it so ray dalio the most successful hedge fund manager of all time has a perfect math equation pain plus reflection equals progress if you don't feel the pain you never reflect on it so my thing is i spend 80 of my time focused on the beautiful things in my life the things i'm grateful for the beautiful things that i want to bring into existence all of it 20 of the time though i'm in the darkness man i'm in that tim grover relentless i'm going to make this happen if i have to break myself and i'm not afraid to lean into that because i know how powerful it is now if you really want to put numbers how powerful this is they did a study and they wanted to find out what happens how can we get people to endure more pain and the punchline is hilarious so they would take people and they would submerge their arm in a bucket of ice and they would just hold it there as long as you can now at first it's just cold but after a while it really starts to hurt and so people would end up yanking their arms out they found that people could hold their arm in the bucket 35 percent longer if you let them display anger so put it in they get to that point where they're about to pull it out and you tell them yell cuss do whatever you need and they'd be able to do it they're the expression of intensity even what i'm doing right now i can feel myself ready right i'm ready to strike my muscles are tense i've got a different posture i bring my chin down there's intensity in my eyes like dude i'm now feeling that because i'm embodying it right so it makes me really feel that and so i actually started to tell the story earlier i hate the gym but what i would do to make myself work out is i would my wife would be on the opposite side of the gym and i would stare at her and i would imagine her being attacked and i would imagine her being attacked by people bigger than me and that the only way that i could fight them off is to get stronger there was nothing beautiful in it i was not worried about aesthetics i was worried about saving my wife and by stepping into that dark place and because people were like what are you doing yeah but dude that was i needed that motivation to push past what i want to push past pain boredom all of it and just to really get into it and get a result but i find that people shy away from that look to me it's an 80 20 split if you're spending more than 20 of your time there it will be corrosive yes it will start to erode your sense of self because you're going to feel badly right because i would be saying to myself you're weak come on like you've got to get stronger if you spend 80 percent of your time doing that that sucks yes i don't want to live like that right but not being able to dip into both you'll just never hit the level of extraordinary you may be fine you may even be good yep but you're never going to be great according to my parents family or the community i grew up in i'm a failure that's crazy and how did i back the trend i was really really fortunate that very early on i started to experiment with what mattered to me sometimes i got me in a lot of trouble what people don't know about me is that i was suspended from school three times for trying out all sorts of things like things that people would never imagine of someone who goes on to be a monk i was experimenting with all the drugs in the world i had multiple relationships i was really trying to search for some sort of meaning fulfillment and as far as long as i've known i've been chasing thrill i really value thrill and feeling like i might not see that coming yeah no not many people do it's it's very different from 14 to 18 i was like this kid who just wanted to try new things out and my parents rhetoric would always be well make sure you get good grades and i used to think well if i can be bad and get good grades then then it all works right everyone's happy so that's that's kind of what i did and at 18 i was really fortunate when i met a monk and this monk was invited to speak and i kind of just went because one of my friends forced me to at that time i was listening to ceos and entrepreneurs and business people and marketers who who i thought that's what i was aspiring to be like and then i hear this monk and he captivated me like no one had ever captivated me before it was like staring at the most beautiful woman on the planet you know i was completely fixated on him and his message and that is the beginning without going into too much detail before we probe that was the beginning of what changed me because i went from being someone who did only want all those things to become successful and trying to but i started hearing my own inner voice much more in all that noise that i had around me i remember one of my my parents had a maths tutor for me because they wanted to be amazing at maths and i was i was pretty good at numbers and i'd have this tutor and he'd tell me that he goes the reason that you're struggling with the next question is because you're always worried about what your parents think and and that really stayed in my head i was just like wow so as long as i'm trapped by what my parents think i can actually never find the answers to the real questions of life and there are all these little things happening i lost two great friends when i was 16. one girl died in a car accident one guy died because he was involved in drugs and violence that that made me rethink everything i just thought to myself wait a minute these were beautiful people people that i loved people that in my opinion were good people and i just lost them in a moment and it was kind of like this collation of little things that just made me think wait a minute having money having fame this that just doesn't seem to add up and then and then meeting the monk kind of made that shift possible yeah i used to have a lot of negative self-talk about you know insecurities i'm not good at this i suck i mean if we really want to go down the rabbit hole you know my older sibling exposed me to drugs and alcohol when i was nine and so yeah and so that really and you liked it or well i i took to it yeah so i i mean it's crazy for people listening you know i got arrested twice before at the age of 15. arrested at 12 and 15. shoplifting and then for drugs at 15. so the reason why i bring that up is i felt really dumb right because you know remember dare don't do drugs all the stuff in the 80s you know if you do alcohol before this or if you drink or smoke your brain is going to be stunted you're you're going to have learning disabilities and so i started to like believe that stuff and i literally i remember my freshman year of high school after i got arrested cleaned my life up my dad kicked me out you're not kicking me out but had me go to rehab outpatient rehab the best decision ever changed my life got into fitness and all that but i really struggled in school and i really believed that i was dumb i was like i'm just i'm not like these other kids and back then my brain wasn't because of my my prior five six years so i had a lot of catching up to do but that mindset that i'm dumb and i'm not able to learn i'm not able to talk with people still lingered with me and it wasn't until college that i started to like kind of slowly change it but this aha moment that what if i do have cancer made me realize that i can't hang on to that crap because my time like we always think we're gonna have time i may not have the time that i think i do to impact the world that i want to and leave a legacy and i was like dude i can't be nervous for interviews it can't be nervous for video i gotta create content i gotta write i gotta research because i realize that like if i have 10 years five years three years whatever it's finite right and we get wrapped up in our insecurities and making money or doing this but i think you know if we can find our the best expression of serving other people that can be an associate that can be whatever everyone has different gifts and i think that's what's so beautiful about the earth so it was just a mindset shift and it was really subtle and i think it's important for people to hear that because you know i don't have necessarily weight issues i don't have blood sugar issues most people you know searching for health related topics are trying to lose body fat trying to balance your blood sugar but i have other issues that i'm dealing with and i we need to have a positive mindset that our body and our mind are malleable i think the things that we tend to be passionate about we don't even realize we're passionate about them because they seem so normal and obvious to us i remember when i was in in music school i was practicing i played guitar so i was practicing like six hours a day just beating my head against the wall trying to learn all these different songs and stuff and i just i hated it was a grind and it felt like a job i was supposed to do and i remember actually right before i quit i uh there was a there was a kid in the program who was like you know he was an all-star like he everybody knew he was gonna make it you know um and it's funny today i think he has two or three grammys but um so like i found him in the cafeteria and i sat down with him and i'm like oh man like i don't know like how do you can you give me some advice man he's like yeah sure what's going on i'm like how do you practice this much like i'm practicing like six hours a day you know how much are you practicing he's like yeah six hours a day and i'm like but yeah but how do you like stay motivated how do you like what's your warm-up like you know like how do you how do you schedule your practice time and he's just looking at me like i'm speaking klingon like he's he's like what are you talking about like i just practice like i always practice like whoa it didn't even compute for him and then i was like okay i should probably quit um [Laughter] so jump ahead like five six years i'd started blogging and i would go to these like internet marketing conferences and stuff and people would start coming up to me and they're like oh man i love your blog man like your articles they're they're like 10 20 pages long you're posting like multiple each week and i'm like yeah thanks like man it's incredible so uh you know what's your writing regimen like like how do you get yourself motivated you know it starts asking me all these questions and i'm like looking at him like what are you talking about like i just write you know i just sit down and write you know i don't even have to think about it and uh and it kind of like rung a bell in my head of like wait a second like that's that's that's something that's like that's a signal that there's something special about this because for whatever reason what seems to cause other people a lot of stress and pain comes easily to me and what causes me a lot of stress and pain you know came easily to to the guy who did make it through music school um and so i realized that it's it's not about like grit or willpower or just like wanting it enough it it's a lot of it too it's just we're all masochists a little bit you know like we all there's some pain in the world that we all it gets us off a little bit and i found mine and uh and so yeah i just you just you just keep hitting that like you just keep going and i think people when they're when you're so focused on pleasure and and pleasant rewards you don't actually get to that question you don't actually get to like yeah what's what's that pain that like actually kind of gets me going you know and because we all have it and that that's that's the sweet spot when you can find it all right guys if you're gonna unlock your potential and achieve everything you've ever wanted you're going to have to constantly be making progress towards your goals so what do you do when you get stuck the bad news is getting stuck happens to everyone at some point it's pretty much unavoidable but the good news is that if you're willing to take action there is a framework that you can follow to get back on track if that sounds familiar or if you're stuck in a rut and not achieving your goals as fast as you want i've pulled a class out of impact theory university that you need to watch right now it's called six steps to getting unstuck and you can watch it for free at unstuck.impacttheory.com inside i'll teach you about how to use cognitive reframes my four level value stack to becoming unstoppable as well as the single most important thing to start doing today to regain momentum to watch this free preview for impact theory university go to unstuck.impacttheory.com i'll see you on the inside guys alright take care and now back to the episode [Music] i know she's old school so i need to go to her dad yeah and i go to her dad and i say you know i want your blessing to ask your daughter to marry me and in the nicest way possible he says no and my wife lisa had always warned me my dad's gonna quiz you when i introduce you my dad's gonna quiz you introduces me he almost doesn't look at me okay no quizzing get to know him a little bit no quizzing seems kind of disinterested he'd ask me a question and then wouldn't even listen for the answer so but when i say i want your blessing to do just like starts going through all these questions and the the final question was how do you plan to take care of my daughter because he was very successful okay and he said my daughter's become used to accustomed to a certain lifestyle and how are you going to provide that for and i said sir i know what you see right now is a broke unemployed kid wow but i'm the most ambitious person you've ever met and i will one day make your daughter rich and he said thank you i hear that i still don't want you to marry my daughter now important to acknowledge he's always been incredibly kind to me he was just very clear that he did not want me to marry his daughter yeah and so that was like whoa like the gauntlet has been laid down i'm going to rise up to this and so in my soul i'm like i've got this man i'm going to do this i'm committed there's no way i will not get rich now because i'm gonna take care of that woman i'm gonna show him that i'm right and then the next morning i lay in bed for three hours maybe four and the day after that three four hours again why because it was cold i didn't want to get up and put a sweatshirt on and literally walk the eight paces and so i would sweat it because she was working and my job was to make her lunch and she would come home and we'd eat lunch together and when we get to the punch line of what i'm like today even i have a hard time believing that was really me so then these two successful entrepreneurs walk into my class and up to that point i'd promised myself two things so i grew up chubby in a morbidly obese family and with no money and i said one day i'm going to be rich and one day i'm gonna have six-pack abs and that was my promise and these guys walked in and they were rich and they had six-pack abs and they said look we're starting a technology company why don't you come be a copywriter and i was like absolutely and it's one of those where people like what are you doing like you're leaving the secure job for me i was like they're like unicorns to me yeah they are literally the thing i'm looking for yeah they are rich and they have six pack abs they're gonna let me into their company yeah and so their whole pitch was look man this is a startup you can have any job in this company you want you just have to become the right person for the job so it was a tech company it was in this beautiful office overlooking the pacific ocean every single person in that company had a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the pacific ocean except me and they put me in the server room which had no windows and a bunch of computers all worrying and making noise and i remember one of the guys was like who's the kid in the server room and so that's how i became known i was the kid in the server room i know anything about business i would bring my wife jesus to visit me in the office and i'm like look how beautiful the office is and this is where i'm at you know and like literally like those makeshift desks that are like really like a table that you would use on a picnic but you've got computers stacked on it that's where i worked all day come on brother and so that just being around other people now who had that same kind of drive yeah and i remember now people are really going to enjoy this one we used to race to see who could relax our bladder the fastest and finish peeing sooner and that like that got me thinking at tempo right like you're snapping and that literally i could feel it make my brain speed up what it was it's one of the most surreal things now since then i've read studies you can the number of patents filed in a city is directly correlated to the speed at which the average citizen walks 20 yards on the sidewalk come on let that sink in so that little like and i'm obsessed of the chills now i'm obsessed with the physiological hooks that can help you develop your mind and moving fast and being made fun of by the way when i move slowly when we want something our our brain only shows us the good side of it it doesn't show the sacri the sacrifice required for it um and everything every experience you have in life there is a sandwich part of it you know there's there's everything has its associated problems um but our brain doesn't think about that when we're pursuing it and so uh for me like one of the most powerful heuristics is to simply instead of thinking about what benefits i want uh in my life i i try to think about what problems do i want in my life um you know it's something as simple as like you know people might see this show and they're like oh damn i wish i had a badass show like that on youtube you know it's like they don't understand like there's a whole crew here there's logistics there's like waivers you gotta get like clear through lawyers and all sorts of crap and it's like those are the problems you chose you know those are the problems that you wanted to have and that's why it's a successful show it's not just because it's like oh damn having a show would be awesome you know like it's easy to just want something you know if you go to the gym it's like challenge yourself to do something new take a class that you know like my wife just at the age of 37 decided she want to learn how to swim and she's like mortified of it you know but i'm like hell yeah go do it you know like that's because it's not just about swimming it's it's about just developing that consistent habit of like stepping into your discomfort and as i said he was completely captivating and then i found out that he'd given up jobs in google and microsoft to be a monk and i thought to myself who does that you know he's given up everything that i'm chasing and that all my friends are chasing but he seems happier than anyone i've ever met before and he spoke about this incredible principle where he said that we should plant trees under whose shade we do not plan to sit and he was speaking about this principle of selfless sacrifice and that kind of just penetrated me right there when he said the words selfless sacrifice for the first time in my life i felt a thrill about something that i'd never felt before i thought wow giving up everything you have for the service of others sounds like the best thing you could possibly do and i don't know why i had that thought because i wasn't a spiritual kid growing up i wasn't a religious kid growing up i wasn't even a good kid growing up i was just a rebel a misfit trying things out and experimenter which i still consider myself and so what i started to do is i was interning at companies and firms and corporates thinking i was getting a grad job afterwards and then i'd spend the rest of my summer holidays interning in india living with him as a monk so i'd use all my summer and christmas holidays to just be out there with the monks and he introduced me to another 200 to 500 monks that were just like him just as smart just as bright giving up everything they had and using all their skills to make the world a better place [Music] uh some people actually have uh aberrant robust you know lighting up of some of these structures uh make the layer ones people usually think of but in these subcortical structures some people actually correlates that they light up more and they have greater addiction in that group so there's a structural element there's a life context element and then there's also the the frontal lobe element and that thinking of creating new habits and creating new values creating less triggers in your life that's the opportunity that we all have and i think that's the project you're working on what's the stuff we can control without zapping ourselves and without putting pills in us those things set the boundaries but the frontal lobe regulation of how we feel is in your own command and you've seen it in buddhist monks you've seen the mind-body connection in deep divers there's actually two nerves that come down and wrap around the heart they can think down their pulse they can think down how fast their heart beats this is not like baloney this is you can put ultrasound we can look it up online you see videos of it that shows that thinking can change thought can change how fast your heart why wouldn't we believe that thought can change those subcortical structures about anxiety and depression if you get depressed you're sort of you know you can get stuck but people who aren't having those mental health issues but just want to be better and live a more rich life in the sense of personal experience we can think about our lives and our habits and triggers and create effects inside us the mind-body connection is is mine down the body and many people feel you know body back up to mind and that's where meditation and and meditative breathing come in but those connections are real you see examples around you if your frontal lobe can only help you five percent and somebody else is all dialed in and helps them fifty percent doesn't matter that's your best and that's an avenue available to you but it's not a it's not a simple one it's not a quick fix it's not gonna be a bullet it actually takes work and you mention repetition it takes work it takes effort and there is no shortcut to it but it's a glacial change that can happen over a few months to a few years and i think once you know like people go to the gym they can't not go to the gym anymore i think people who find these rituals and habits that make them feel better they become addictive to that and they're constructive and they're not pharmacologic i began to discover brain plasticity so i'm laying on the floor in my apartment i'm flirting with depression i just don't know how i'm gonna make anything in my life feel hopeless and lost and so i start reading about the brain and reading in college revealed itself to me as as the way to gain knowledge and so i start reading reading about the brain i see there's this debate going on this is like late 90s early 2000s and there's a camp of people saying no no you can learn even like to your last day on this planet but it was highly debated it's not anymore but it was then and i said i choose to believe that i choose to believe that i can grow and change and so i start reading voraciously i start thinking about brain plasticity and getting better i take a job as a teacher and realize in teaching them i'm able to make their films better and if i can make their films better why can't i make my own films better so that starts to rebuild me and i start thinking of myself as someone that needs to grow and learn and get better so it's now called a growth mindset you can now get a book on it you can watch a thousand youtube videos none of this existed back then which is why all the stumbling around and but i start reading and i start reading voraciously and it starts to build my belief system and that belief system ultimately is what completely changes my life but first i need some more pain and suffering i didn't think i had a problem i didn't think that i thought my parents didn't understand me or whatever this is what kids do i mean come on you know people smoke pot and drink all the time you guys probably did it too and i didn't realize how behind in school i was i didn't realize how stunted emotionally i was i didn't realize that i couldn't effectively communicate with people like literally verbally and look people in the eyes all that because i hid behind the substances you know and the little relationships that i had back then were all under the influence and so it forced me to get outside of my comfort zone and learn new skill sets learn how to approach women learn how to read i had to re-learn how to read alphabet multiplication tables literally and how did it get into to weightlifting is my stepmother introduced me to a chiropractor and he said you know what to get stronger and everything you need to to do these compound movements squats deadlifts presses and they're just like you look you have potential mic you need to just course correct here and yeah so that's how i got into it and you know i realized that if i can change my body i could probably do the same thing to my mind the weights gave me a lot of self-confidence and then eventually that gave me the self-confidence that i can learn in school and then i did the pre-med route and everything like that and so without the weights i don't think i would have had that and the ability to change my physique probably would not have had the self-confidence that i could learn biology and that i could actually study and do the mcat the medical school aptitude test and things like that right so i think a lot of people look at people that lift weights and think meathead or you're just doing this for looks but there's so many so much carryover mentally that occur and so that's why i love to have all my clients do some sort of resistance training or some exercise that's quantifiable a lot of people go to the gym and just do the elliptical for 20 minutes but you can't really quantify if you're gaining you know if you're improving or not because you're just doing time or you're looking at heart rate so if you're going to do cardio i recommend training with watts or power if you're doing yoga it's a little bit easier to quantify because you can see if you're getting into a position better you can hold it for longer and weights and even crossfit or powerlifting offer that feedback so we know for improving i'm a huge fan of the book thinking fast and slow i don't know how if you've read it yeah it's a great book because for me it's got a really close pattern connection again to what i studied so just understanding system one and system two if anyone watching hasn't read it i highly recommend it just being able to differentiate between system one and system two as daniel kahneman calls it in the vedic philosophy we call differentiating between the mind and the intelligence knowing how to differentiate the voices in your head is the first level of self-awareness so break down what system one and system two are absolutely so system one is your initial response to anything that happens it's it's a stop that i can't really say so if you say something i don't like my system one naturally would be a face that i pull that i don't agree with that that's that's an understanding of what system one in it's your initial default reaction in the moment that can be positive often for example if someone pulls out a knife you feel scared and you run that system one that's a good thing it's it's safe for you but also system one is someone says something that hurts your ego and you start defending yourself immediately that's also that's a negative of system one that we would refer to as the mind it's built up of conditioning those responses are conditioned those default elements are all there because of habit and continuous practice the system two is more like the intelligence what i would say is more like the parent if you can consider system one to be more like a child system two is more like a parent it looks more at the long term it looks more at the bigger picture it processes that default reaction through a set of checking and metrics to decide whether that's true the child is the the one that wants everything right away impatient quickly responding straight away uh reacting when it doesn't get what he wants the intelligent parent and good one knows what the child wants and needs and what's better for in the long term just starting there and being able to reflect and observe the different voices inside of us is a great place to start your self-awareness because the biggest challenge is that most of us don't know what we're listening to and we don't most of us don't even know that there are more than one voice inside of us just getting over that line is a huge win because now at least you're trying to differentiate in what you're hearing and that's going to help you make better decisions in the future emotions should never stop you from achieving your goals so if you feel stuck overwhelmed low on confidence you're beating yourself up or you feel like you're not deserving of the things you want in life i have something to tell you emotions are not facts and you should never let them hold you back and yet i find that people do this all the time they mistake that feeling for objective truth and it sends them in this downward spiral [Music] reaching greater levels of success in life means knowing how to use your brain and if you're in a rut right now or if you've been struggling for a while to achieve your goals then i've pulled a class from impact theory university to help you get back on track it's called six steps to getting unstuck and it's for anyone who wants to know the exact steps to achieving big goals when life puts challenges in your way if you want to check it out go to unstuck.impacttheory.com to get access it's a free preview alright guys i'll see you on the inside now let's get back to today's episode [Music] it's the way the brain prefers to get its fuel source and it's based on a diet lessons about dieting learn through controlling epilepsy and seizures in kids in areas where there's no medicine so i was in ukraine and when they don't have medicine or a type of seizure seizures the abnormal electrical activity of the brain just like an arrhythmia would be an abnormal electrical activity of the heart uh they would just feed them all fat diet you could smell it in the hospitals so something about an all fat diet forcing you into just using ketones now intermittent fasting is back and forth glucose and then ketones glucose and then ketones but for kids if you just get them almost nearly all ketone as the source that goes up to the brain through an all-fat diet their seizure rates go down you know so that's proof that food changes mind because the mind is the electricity sparking through that flesh food will change the electricity detectable measurable electricity in your brain food affects mind food affects brain with that premise we can talk about okay mind diet will hold off dementia and intermittent fasting might make you feel like you've had a cup of coffee once you're getting a rhythm on it it's not going to make you smarter but it'll bring you to your most focus to bring you to your most attentive it's not oh i'm intermittent fasting and now i can do physics it's it's not like that it's your personal best and then the habits you demonstrate to your family by trying to be at your personal best and then your kids see that and your friends see that and i think that's how you impact generation change is to have uh capable people demonstrate hey it's not hard and this is the best we can do for ourselves if somebody's struggling mentally the first thing that i would recommend to them is to go work out and the reason is the self-respect self-belief are i think some of the biggest things that people struggle from and sitting there and looking in the mirror and telling yourself that you love yourself is it's probably not a bad start but it's never going to get you there because if you don't do something that you actually respect you're not going to develop the self-respect working out lifting it's hard it's difficult you have to sustain effort but you do see that loop of i did this thing i stayed focused i was disciplined i pushed beyond my comfort zone and i got a result and i look better which triggers that intrinsic like when you look better you feel better as you're getting stronger you feel better you have that more confidence but it's fascinating to me how few people are able to apply that to the rest of their life like you'll see a lot of people they crush it in the gym they obviously understand that you put in that effort and you get this tremendous reward but they don't make the leap of if i can do it to my body i can do it to my brain so it's not that you know body fat obs can have problems and challenges and is linked with inflammation and where your body fat sits is a big deal but that's where i think it gives people power because it's not just about your diet it's about your sleep your relationships your stress management you know your mindset exercise your kidney rhythms there's all these things and if you you know just relegate food to just calories you miss all that but it brings back to what you were saying it's not about being right you know and i think people and i've learned this myself i've had to have an open mind like because i read negative ketogenic diet studies because i want to challenge my own beliefs so i don't i'm not in this echo chamber i talk about those negative ketogenic diet studies and when i'm reading it i'm trying to have remove my bias it's very hard as human beings our mind is wired to be very biased we're constantly when we watch videos like this or read books we're trying to confirm what we already believe you know what i mean and so we need to kind of remove ourselves from that a little bit and and realize that's how we're wired and we're set up that way but it doesn't mean we have to be that way to keep the flesh healthy uh you have to irrigate it and that has to do with your brain arteries and since we already said it's not a it's not a ball you know it's these uh you know these jellyfish and they're moving and they're throbbing and they're pulsating and their tentacles are reaching out there's a lot of space in between and that extracellular space outside of the actual cells outside the neurons outside of the jellyfish if you will it's not just water there's chemicals floating around in there now dopamine might be just from technical to tentacles you know serotonin might be this way but what's it what's in all the stuff around all those billions and billions of neurons they're growth factors and minerals and chemicals that the brain naturally has but there's also a soup that these billions and billions of neurons are floating in bdnf is a key component of that soup that helps regulate the health of each of those uh jellyfish or nerves and we can trigger more of that exercise yeah you exercise it releases it it showers itself it's not like the thighs thigh muscle sends it up to the brain the brain says hey i'm feeling good this is good i like this i'm gonna create a new rut i'm gonna remind you you feel good when you run the brain will shower itself with growth factors there are growth factors brain says hey you know the electrochemical balance is better with those so i think that's where you get the runners high it's not just adrenaline it's not dope it means a happy chemical i'm jacked up i'm on adrenaline it's just such a complex ecosystem and rather than feeling uh intimidated by that to me i just see opportunities on how people can you know improve their lives when i think exercise is too easy um too easy and too hard actually the way we live to me with my kids i've been trying to drag them to the gym we got a new membership and all that but changing what shows up on the counter is powerful and if we ate less and if we ate efficiently and we did you know it's a less carbon imprint i think all of those things is good for the planet it's good for us it's mind and body and and then it's also communal you know then then it goes to the next generation it's not just something i did at equinox and with my yoga mat in malibu and then i think it can perpetuate so it's not just an individual thing

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Length: 36min 22sec (2182 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 30 2021